Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [Acts: Chapter 19]
(ingressive) middle participle of \ephallomai\, old verb to
spring upon like a panther, here only in the N.T. {Mastered}
(\katakurieusas\). First aorist (effective) active participle of
\katakurieu•\, late verb from \kata\ and \kurios\, to become lord
or master of. {Both} (\amphoter•n\). Papyri examples exist where
\amphoteroi\ means "all" or more than "two" (Robertson,
_Grammar_, p. 745). So here \amphoteroi\ includes all seven.
"Both" in old English was used for more than two. {So that}
(\h•ste\). Another example (verses 10,11) of \h•ste\ with the
infinitive for result. {Naked} (\gumnous\). Probably with torn
garments, {Wounded} (\tetraumatismenous\). Perfect passive
participle of \traumatiz•\, old verb to wound, from \trauma\ (a
wound). In the N.T. only here and Lu 20:12.
19:17 {Was magnified} (\emegaluneto\). Imperfect passive. To make
great. It was a notable victory over the powers of evil in
Ephesus.
19:18 {Came} (\•rchonto\). Imperfect middle, kept coming, one
after another. Even some of the believers were secretly under the
spell of these false spiritualists just as some Christians today
cherish private contacts with so-called occult powers through
mediums, seances, of which they are ashamed. {Confessing}
(\exomologoumenoi\). It was time to make a clean breast of it
all, to turn on the light, to unbosom their secret habits.
{Declaring their deeds} (\anaggellontes tas praxeis aut•n\).
Judgment was beginning at the house of God. The dupes (professing
believers, alas) of these jugglers or exorcists now had their
eyes opened when they saw the utter defeat of the tricksters who
had tried to use the name of Jesus without his power. The
boomerang was tremendous. The black arts were now laid bare in
their real character. Gentile converts had a struggle to shake
off their corrupt environment.
19:19 {Not a few of them that practised curious arts} (\hikanoi
t•n ta perierga praxant•n\). Considerable number of the
performers or exorcists themselves who knew that they were
humbugs were led to renounce their evil practices. The word
\perierga\ (curious) is an old word (\peri, erga\) originally a
piddler about trifles, a busybody (1Ti 5:13), then impertinent
and magical things as here. Only two examples in the N.T. It is a
technical term for magic as the papyri and inscriptions show.
Deissmann (_Bible Studies_, p. 323) thinks that these books here
burned were just like the Magic Papyri now recovered from Egypt.
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